Week 3 HW: Lab Automation

Python Script found here.

Find my three project ideas here, but here is a draft outline

Post Lab Questions Find and describe a published paper that utilizes the Opentrons or an automation tool to achieve novel biological applications.

I read the paper “High-Throughtput Microbial Culturomics Using Automation and Machine Learning”

This paper describes a process utilising lab automation and machine learning to enable faster strain isolation and characterisation. Isolating individual bacterial from the collected microbiome is an arduous process.

The paper proposes and tests the following approach:

1. An AI-guided selection process that works on analysing images of colony morphology.
2. Robotic device that chooses specific colonies and isolates them.
3. Pipeline for genotyping and taxonomy
4. Physical isolate biobank and digital database with searchale colony morphology.

Write a description about what you intend to do with automation tools for your final project. You may include example pseudocode, Python scripts, 3D printed holders, a plan for how to use Ginkgo Nebula, and more.